Comments on: Crazy v. Silly

By: dr. luba

dr. luba — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:55:44 +0000

goatherd,

Nah, Gomer never could have made it in today’s GOP. He’s a nice guy who a) actually served in the marines and b) cared about other people and helped them.

I see the modern GOP more as the Eddie Haskell party…..

By: Danny Canan

Danny Canan — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:56:01 +0000

Mitt’s efforts in Indiana need CPR…campaign staff have had problems collecting enough signatures for the 2008 primary….

Romney Campaign Staff have traveled to the 8th & 6th congressional districts to collect enough signatures…

Mitt may be feeling a backlash from Indiana’s typically conservative voters and their reluctance to support a candidate who continues to morph on his values.

By: goatherd

goatherd — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:07:13 +0000

One of my favorite goofball ideas that Huckabee is proposing is what he calls the “fair” tax. He wants to abolish income tax and the IRS and substitute a 23% sales tax. So a low income family who spend all their income and possibly more, if they have a negative savings rate, would be paying 23% on virtually all of their income. Someone earning beyond their needs would pay tax on only part of their income. The more they earn the smaller percentage of their income would be subject to tax.

I also think that sooner or later it will be impossible to ignore the fact that Huckabee is lying about his actions in the Dumond affair

Too bad Gomer Pyle is only a fictional character, I think he would be leading the GOP pack.

By: erinyes

erinyes — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:35:29 +0000

Hey Maha,
If this is the best and brightest of the Repugs and the Dems STILL loose I’m movin’ to some obscure third world hell hole and running for emperor. The Dems have some really good people, Biden, Richardson, and Dodd are my favored over the “first tier”.
I’ll be on the campaign trail in outer Mongolia all this week, so I won’t be in contact ’till Thursday eve………
Cao for now.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:15:22 +0000

Regarding Romney, we all know how difficult it is to appeal to everyone at once.

By: BPx3

BPx3 — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:00:15 +0000

“But the War and Profits factions in the GOP hate Huckabee and will do their best to undermine him.”

The W&P factions in the GOP have officially entered full panic mode. While waiting for my first cup of coffee to kick in this morning, I spent ten minutes channel surfing (the Weather Channel, Meet the Press, and This Week with George). The Weather Channel played it straight and stuck to reporting the weather. Those appearing on the other two programs were shocked, SHOCKED!, that the Republican base is infested with theocratic fundamentalists who just might nominate Huckabee. Don’t these fundies know that their job is to stuff envelopes for Republican candidates, vote Republican, then keep their mouths shut and stay out of the way of the plutocrats. The nerve of those people!

I agree that the W&P factions will do their best to prevent Huckabee’s nomination. I think the back up plan is to make sure Hillary is the Democratic nominee. She may be a registered Democrat, but at least she understands that Republican lobbyists and war profiteers are people too, who deserve our understanding and respect.

By: biggerbox

biggerbox — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:47:55 +0000

Oh, I don’t know. That’s a good line, but I thought “a television spot about immigration in which he makes Tom Tancredo sound like Emma Lazarus” was laugh-out loud funny. But he did soften me up with the shout-out to Monty Python – I’ve thought of that sketch often during this campaign.

Huckabee has been worrying me for months, after I saw him on Jon Stewart. He comes across as a friendly, not angry, witty guy, and a bunch of folks could be attracted to that without realizing his politics are dreadful and his ignorance frightening. I can only hope that now that he’s a front-runner, the Dumond story will get more coverage, and Huck’s many failings will become news.

The real quandary is, sooner or later the GOP will have to nominate someone. Who? Will we see a deadlocked convention? A schism between the Angry, Crazy, Silly and the Very Silly wings of the party? It’ll be something to watch while waiting for the writers strike to end!

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:48:23 +0000

At some point, Romney should be forced to make a speech while his consultants stand next to him, drinking glasses of water.

Quote of the day, definitely. And not just because I tend to discount sentences, and even whole paragraphs, that contain the word “zeitgeist.”